Champions Accelerator is a part of Champions Group, a business conglomerate with diversified businesses across Data & Marketing services, Cloud Computing, Real Estate & Infrastructure, Media & Entertainment, Lifestyle & Entertainment, Leisure & Hospitality and Automotive & Finance.
With the above expertise and global presence in USA, Singapore & Dubai, Champions Group has ventured into creating an Accelerator for early stage start-ups and participating in the journey towards creating one of the largest start-up ecosystems in India, solving various challenges with new technologies and innovation.
We empower visionary entrepreneurs to build unique solutions that can reshape the ordinary businesses into extraordinary companies. Being pioneers of investing in global technology products and technology-led businesses, we partner with entrepreneurs through thick and thin and continue to back them through their entrepreneurial journey.
Meet Subhakar Rao Surapaneni, an innovator, mentor and successful business leader across the marketing world. Pursuing five professional passions of Sales & Marketing Education, Philanthropy, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Mr. Rao began with humble beginnings and has built his business empire based on his own efforts, originality and skilled insights. He has received several accolades including one amongst "100 Most Influential Global Sales & Marketing Technology Leaders", by the leading business news journal, The Marketing Times.
The entrepreneurial innings of Subhakar Rao Surapaneni began very early in his life. He developed immense interest and enthusiasm in entrepreneurship in 1993, while pursuing his Master’s Degree at Wayne State University. Mr. Rao took his first test ride into entrepreneurship and forayed into technology at the very young age of 23. With continued determination and perseverance and by taking on all the hardships of the entrepreneurial path in a positive stride, he founded the Champions Group in 2003. In a short period he built the organization from 5 to a continuously growing number of more than 3500 champions today.
Champions Group is a well acclaimed global business conglomerate which provides services across various industry verticals such as Marketing Data Solutions, Real estate, Information, LED Ad Vehicles, Infratech, Exports, Resorts, Entertainment, Technology, Education and Venture capital. The enterprise is a go-to brand across all of these sectors and is highly regarded for its world-class products and services.
Srinath is an enthusiastic optimist who believes that the world is a better place because of the entrepreneurs in every society. His personal mission is to unleash the potential of entrepreneurs across all sizes of companies including MNC’s, promoter-led family companies, SME’S and new-age start-ups across domains while enabling profitable, conscientious, and sustainable growth for their businesses.
He is a mechanical engineer by profession and a Management person from IIM Ahmedabad with two decades plus leadership experience in Food & Beverage, HVACR, Retail, Consumer durables and Commercial refrigeration industries in large Global and Indian MNC'S like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Whirlpool, Voltas (TATA group), Frigoglass, etc. In his last role he was VP for Coca-Cola, South Asia.
Founder/Director of Firmus Ventures Pvt. Ltd which provides Management Consulting for Global & India FMCG & consumer durable companies including SME’S, Technology consulting (Product development, Software & Hardware) and Enabling Start-ups as Investor, Mentor, Advisor to succeed in marketplace across USA & India
Uma Shankar is an award-winning brand design specialist who enjoys conceptualizing, designing and developing a brand identity for products, services, and organizations. With more than 14 plus years of experience in visual communication, ideating, directing, and designing high-profile creatives for various industries such as Information Technology, Retail, Healthcare, Education, Entertainment, and so on, he has successfully converted brand stories into measurable business growth.
Coming from a humble background, Uma Shankar has grown up the ladder with his sheer hard work, dedication, and a never give up attitude in life. He has worked with top advertising agencies and provided his expertise for brands such as Titan, Philips Innovation Campus, Bosch, Amazon, MindTree, Pondicherry Tourism, etc. He has received the 2 Annual Awards for excellence in advertising from the prestigious Advertising Club, Bangalore.